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You didn't say whether you were shooting a TV screen or a computer monitor. Here's how I do both with repeatable results: Computer monitor: I tripod mount a camera and use standard Ektachrome 100. I use a 200mm telephoto lens to reduce the screen curvature. I run my display in 1024×768 24 bit mode. I use an 85B filter to correct for the bluish colortemp. Do not use auto as it is fooled by the rapidly strobing light from a monitor screen. Use a shutter speed of 0.5 to 1 seconds depending on your brightness of your monitor. One last thing, shoot in a pitch dark room with only the screen as a light source (eliminates secondary glare). Put some tape over the little led's glowing from your computer lights too. TV monitor. Pretty much the same but the shutter speed needs to be 1/30 of a second for moving pictures and only slower if the picture is still. PS: bracketing is a waste of film unless you know how you bracket. Discipline yourself to always follow the same procedure eg. shoot the proper setting, then one high and then one low. Or move by two stops depending on the film's latitude. This way you don't have to keep a log but still know what you did on each roll shot. I can now shoot 1 for 1 using the above technique. On a rush critical job I don't even bracket video monitor shooting anymore. Every shot comes out as good as an analog film recorder. (not as good as a digital film recorder, though)